Carry-iron for car-couplings.



C. A. HUMPHRYS.

CARRY IRON FOR GAR COUPLINGS.

APPLICATION FILED 0013.190?

Patented June 22, 1909.

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WITNESSES:

/ 1 Y M J 7 snares Pa rs CHARLES vA HUMPHRYS, OF CHICO, CALIFORNIA.

CARRY-IRON FOR can-confines? Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 3,1907. Serial No. 395,767.

consists in the novel details of construction more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the platform end of a car having my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical transverse section on the line 22. of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line of Fig, 2. I

The object of my invention is to provide a suitable support for the forward end of a car co'upler, particularly of that type which is used on inter-urban and heavy street cars, and best adapted for cars having frequent occasion for rounding ,oontinuous and reverse curves. The advantages of the invention will be best apparent from a de-- tailed description thereof which is: as follows:

Referring to the drawings, P, represents th platform of the car, 'having disposed al oar D" is pivotally secure at one end so as to swing in a horizontal plane. ZBolted also to the. platform is a curved structural member .8, preferably of I-bearn construction, the curvature thereof conforming-to an are described from the pivotal axis of the the hottornthereof a con ler C whose.

draw-bar as acenter. Suspended IIOm the lower flanges of the I-beam'by curved arms or claws 1, 1, which engage the ball-bearings 2, is a carriage or hanger H composed of two sections bolted together (Fig. 3) and substantially U-shaped in form, said ha er loosely encompassing the draw-barD. he base of the hanger is provided with openings O for the passage of the air hose A.

As the cars pass around a curve, the coupler oscillates in conformity thereto, and ,in

response to any deflection of the coupler thehanger H rides back and forth over the flangeof the I-beam with a minimum amount of friction, (Fig. 1).

The advantages of the device are fully apparent from the drawings.

Patented :uneae, 1909;) v

Having described my invention-what I claim is:

In combination with a car-bod a drawbar pivoted'at its rear endto saicar-body, a transversely disposed I-beam at the end of the car-body located adjacent to the drawbar and curved to conform to thearc 'de scribed by the draw-bar in its oscillationsabout its ivotal end, a hanger suspended from the ower flanges of the'I-beani, the

draw-bar passing loosely through thehanger below the I-bearn, claws coupled to the hanger, and anti-friction bearings interposed between the flanges and the claws, substantially as set forth.

. In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES A. HUltllHRYS.

lVitnesses:

OSCAR MORTIMER PRUOE, ADOLPi-I H. Minna. 

